Swivel passenger chair

[dvanzee]

Bringing in the slide the passenger side chair was too far back and caught the slide for a few seconds. Now chair will not swivel and is locked into forward. Any ideas to release?

[Gary.Jones]

The chair is held in a forward position by a steel locking pin which is attached to a sheathed stainless steel cable (similar to a bicycle handle bar brake set up) which has an inner cable which attaches to the plastic lever on the front bottom section of the co-pilot's chair. What you have probably done is bent the locking pin and jammed it in the hole it mates with in the chair support steel so that when you try to unlock it with the plastic lever, it will not release.

The whole chair release mechanism is pretty flimsy stuff. I just had to have mine replaced for opposite reasons. The attachment of the aircraft cable and the inner release cable attached to the back of the plastic lever in a fairly flimsy way and the attachment simply fell apart on my coach so the outer sheath was no longer attached and the inner cable could not pull on the pin hard enough to make it disengage. I had the whole apparatus replaced by NIRVC during a repair visit.

Here is my guess. You can probably get a pair of pliers or vice grips onto the pin and force it out and the chair will turn. However, if you do that, there is an excellent chance that then you will not be able to get it back into the slot to lock it. My decision was to leave it the heck alone and not swivel the chair until the whole thing could be replaced. Your solution may vary....

Gary